Mosaic Circles Card.

Hello Fellow Bloggers, Friends & Visitors,

Thank you for your comments and visits on my last blog post, I do enjoy hearing your thoughts on my projects.    Hope you are all keeping safe and well during this very cold spell we are having at the moment.   We have only had a dusting of snow here but I suspect it will get much worse in the next few days.   Maybe this will be Winter's last fling lol!   I do hope so, roll on the Spring is all I can say lol.

My card for tonight was made for Sue & Harvey of Imagination Crafts and was  for their shows on the Hochanda T.V. Channel in  February 2017.    I was given a stencil and some Sparkle Medium to work with.   I did use some distress inks also.   Hope you like what I did with the stencil.

  
I do tend to look at stencils to see how else they can be used, turning them upside down,  maybe cut out some parts etc.,   In this case I decided to 3D certain parts of this stencil.   Below is a photo of the 'Mosaic sun' stencil.

   
Matt a square of blue paper onto a 7" x 7" white base card, leaving a quarter inch border of the white showing.

Take a slightly smaller square of white card and lay the mosaic stencil on top.   Dab the Victorian Velvet Distress ink over the top half of the stencil, then the Stormy sky and finally, the Dusty concord, using a piece of cut 'n' dry foam.

Wash and dry the stencil, then lay it back on the now coloured white card, moving it slightly to the right (off-setting it a tiny amount, in order to create a shadow effect.)   Spread the Antique Pink Sparkle Medium over the top of the stencil, using the metal spatula and the Diamond Blue across the centre and the Diamond Quartz across the bottom of the stencil, blending the colours together as you go.

  
Remove the stencil and leave the images to dry.   Fix this to the base card.   Repeat this once again onto a spare piece of white card, using only the Sparkle Mediums this time, only doing the overlapping patterns, ie; 2 large and 2 small Antique Pink circles and 2 large blue (with a touch of Diamond Quartz).

   
Cut these circles out and fix to the original images using sticky foam pads with a touch of Magi-bond glue on each pad  (I find this helps the foam pad stick to the Sparkle Medium better).

 
Die-cut a circle from white card and colour with a little Stormy Sky distress ink and stamp ' Happy Birthday' in the centre using a black ink pad.   Fix this to the right-hand side of the card using sticky foam pads, to balance the design.

 
Well that's this card finished.   Thank you once again for your comments and visits they are much appreciated.    Stay safe and warm in this bitter cold weather.   See you all again soon.   Have a good week.

                                                                 Love and rainbows,

                                                                  Hugs   Jennifer xx.

Pink Poinsettia - Another Sneaky Peek.

Hello,

Hope you are all well and not flooded out after the recent  dreadful weather,  the good news is that it is on its way out and better weather is due, thank goodness.    We have been extremely lucky here.   Tonight I have another 'sneaky peek' for you,  a card made with the gorgeous poinsettia stencil.   I have decoupaged the poinsettia but it can of course be used  flat as a background.    I have also used one of Imagination Craft's decoupage stamp sets to create the centre of the large poinsettia, along with the fabulous Starlight Paints.

   
Once again the light was not good for taking photographs, so apologies, the beautiful shimmer of the Starlight Paints have caught the light.

Begin by matting a piece of pink paper onto a 7"x7" white base card, leaving a small white border showing.   Next matt a piece of green paper onto the pink,  leaving a border of the  pink showing.  

Cut a smaller square of white card and lay the large poinsettia stencil onto it, then dab some Starlight paints - Antique pink, Emerald and Antique gold, through the design on the stencil, using pieces of cut 'n' dry foam.   Remove the stencil and wash it as soon as you can,  or it will be more difficult to get clean.

   
Using the Martha Stewart corner punch, punch all four corners of the white card.   Glue this onto the green paper on the base card.   Make another poinsettia  in the same way, using the Antique pink  Starlight Paint, colouring the bracts only.   Cut out the individual bracts, leaving a tiny border of white, then glue them to the original poinsettia, using silicone glue, to add dimension to your card.

    
Cover a piece of white card with Diamond Sparkle Medium using a spatula or an Imagination Craft's brayer.    When this is dry, stamp the decoupage  poinsettia stamp onto the Sparkle Mediumed card  using a black ink pad.    Cut this out and glue to the centre of the large poinsettia.

   
Glue five gold beads to the centre of the poinsettia and a pink ribbon bow to the top right corner of the card.

  
That is this card finished, I do hope you like it.    Please do not forget to tune in to Hochanda T.V. on Thursday 24th. November 2016 at 8pm.   and then on Friday 25th. November at  9am.  12 noon, 4pm and 7pm. to see Imagination Craft's One Day Special shows.    I will be back again tomorrow with another 'sneaky peek' for you.   Catch you all then.

                                                               Love and rainbows,

                                                             Crafty Hugs   Jennifer xx.